I'm trying to update the libzeep package and stumbled upon the following.
libzeep uses documentation generated by boostbook which uses quickbook and doxygen amongst others. Now this setup creates an HTML page containing the useful line "Last revised: " and, you guessed it, followed by a date. That's not reproducible, is it?
Has anyone dealt with this before? Any suggestions other than adding a sed to the build scripts?
Actually, a few months back I actually took a look at libzeep. After doing a few investigations I found out that the problem
is instead with doxygen rather than libzeep, with the set of options you passed. I admit, I don't remember what exactly was the problem though. (been many months)
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